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Justice League #9 – Review

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (story), Jim Lee (pencils), Scott Williams (inks), Alex Sinclair, Pete Pantazis, Gabe Eltaeb (colorists), Gary Frank (feature art), Brad Anderson (feature colors) The Story: Soon, the League will know the dangers of excessive fanship. The Review: One of this title’s biggest pitfalls has been its inability to establish a consistent tone, direction, [...]

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Green Lantern #9 – Review

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (story), Doug Mahnke (pencils), Christian Alamy, Keith Champagne, Mark Irwin, Tom Nguyen (inks), Alex Sinclair (colors) The Story: Considering the success of rehab on Hollywood celebrities, this isn’t surprising in the least. The Review: While I generally like Johns as a writer, and there are quite a few of his works I [...]

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Justice League #8 – Review

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Too many to list—check out the review. The Story: If Arrows wants in so bad, you should at least give him the honor of hazing him. The Review: If anything proves that relentless flash and glam can’t make up for ill-conceived, incomprehensible storytelling, it has to be the Garry Marshall-Katherine Fugate series of star-studded, [...]

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Green Lantern #8 – Review

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (artist), Mark Irwin, Keith Champagne, Christian Alamy (inkers), Alex Sinclair (colorist) The Story: When the Indigos do rehab, they definitely don’t screw around. The Review: If there’s one lesson we’ve learned on this title, it’s that membership to a color corps—any color corps—isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. [...]

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Young Justice Episode 22 – Review

Posted on March 27, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Kevin Hopps (writer) The Story: Joining the League is not unlike joining the Plastics in Mean Girls. The Review: To the show’s credit, the writers have done a careful job focusing on the young team itself, despite the constant temptation of the Justice League appearing tantalizingly on the fringes of stories. Still, we’re constantly [...]

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Justice League #7 – Review

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Gene Ha (artist), Art Lyon (colorist), Gary Frank (feature artist), Brad Anderson (feature colorist) The Story: Working with the League isn’t unlike babysitting surly teens, as Steve Trevor learns. The Review: Something I learned the hard, painful way back in college was that you could bring your most creative ideas in [...]

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Green Lantern #7 – Review

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (penciller), Keith Champagne, Christian Alamy, Mark Irwin (inkers), Alex Sinclair (colorist) The Story: Nok nok. Who’s there? Indigo. Indigo who? Indigo home! Like E.T., get it? The Review: As my last few reviews show, Johns has fallen into something of a slump on Justice League, where characters rarely venture [...]

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Justice League #6 – Review

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Jim Lee (penciller), Scott Williams, Sandra Hope, Batt, Mark Irwin (inkers), Alex Sinclair, Tony Avina, Hi-Fi (colorists) The Story: Darkseid, wouldn’t printing ads on the back of milk cartons work better than all this? The Review: Justice League Dark demonstrated, by negative inference, how important it is to give each member [...]

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Green Lantern #6 – Review

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Mike Choi (artist), Alex Sinclair (colorist) The Story: In which Sinestro finds prophecies to be heavy reading. The Review: At some point in every superhero’s life there comes a time when they have to face the prospect of hanging up the cape/putting away the spandex outfit for a while, even for [...]

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Justice League #5 – Review

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Jim Lee (penciller), Scott Williams, Sandra Hope, Mark Irwin, Joe Weems (inkers), Alex Sinclair, Gabe Eltaeb, Tony Avina (colorists) The Story: I’ll give this for Hal—the kid takes a lickin’ and keeps on tickin’. The Review: Look, I get it. Even with a whole cast of perfectly formed, likable characters, you’re [...]

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Green Lantern #5 – Review

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (penciller), Mark Irwin, Keith Champagne, Christian Alamy, Tom Nguyen (inkers), Alex Sinclair & Tony Avina (colorists) The Story: Instead of power rings, maybe it’s best the mob goes back to pitchforks and torches. The Review: It’s a funny thing about people. We spend a great lot of our time [...]

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Justice League #4 – Review

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Jim Lee (penciller), Scott Williams (inker), Alex Sinclair & Gabe Eltaeb (colorist) The Story: Vic, would this be a bad time for me to suggest you star as the new Bionic Man? The Review: I admit, I had mixed feelings when I heard Cyborg was going to join the Justice League. [...]

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Green Lantern #4 – Review

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (penciller), Christian Alamy & Keith Champagne (inkers), Alex Sinclair (colorist) The Story: Sinestro, you can’t just hand out these power rings like they’re candy! The Review: Oh, come on—seeing Hal get fried in the Yellow Central Battery was all good and fun, but no one thought for one second [...]

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JLA: The Age of Wonder – Review

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Adisakdi Tantimedh (writer), Galen Showman & P. Craig Russell (artists), Dave McCaig (colorist) The Story: I say, up in the sky! It’s a bird, it’s a plane—oh, wait, those don’t exist yet. The Review: I wasn’t sure how to classify these DC Comics Presents books. Even though they’re released as “issues,” they really represent [...]

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Justice League #3 – Review

Posted on November 17, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Jim Lee (penciller), Scott Williams (inker), Alex Sinclair, Hi-Fi, Gabe Eltaeb (colorist) The Story: Those ain’t no flying monkeys! The Review: One of the more intriguing elements to this version of the Justice League is the youth they project. Appearance-wise, they all look around their late twenties or early thirties, and [...]

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Green Lantern #3 – Review

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (penciller), Christian Alamy, Keith Champagne, Mark Irwin, Tom Nguyen (inkers), David Baron (colorist) The Story: You know what the Korugans need? An Occupy movement. The Review: Just as Green Lantern has risen in stature in the last few years to the point where he now has the same iconic [...]

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Justice League #2 – Review

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Jim Lee (penciller), Scott Williams (inker), Alex Sinclair (colorist) The Story: You know, I guess it’s not a new-fangled Rubik’s cube after all. The Review: While the debut issue of this series had quite a lot of fun, engaging material to it, it also had the disappointment of a false promise. [...]

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Green Lantern #2 – Review

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (penciller), Christian Alamy & Keith Champagne (inkers), David Baron (colorist) The Story: It’s easy to see who’s the bad cop in this pairing. The Review: While comics mostly serve as escapist fiction, that doesn’t mean they can’t bear commentary on real life as well. A lot of writers seem [...]

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Green Lantern #1 – Review

Posted on September 14, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (penciller), Christian Alamy & Tom Nguyen (inkers), David Baron (colorist) The Story: Sinestro, to the rescue! For once, I’m actually not kidding you. The Review: One of the few titles sticking to its guns and continuity post-relaunch is Green Lantern, so we can safely start by talking about what [...]

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Justice League #1 – Review

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Jim Lee (penciller), Scott Williams (inker), Alex Sinclair (colorist) The Story: I have only one question—what happened to everybody’s underwear? The Review: Funny. It doesn’t feel like a new age of comics. But DC insists one has come, and seeing the enormous slate they’ve just wiped clean, we must take their [...]

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Flashpoint #4 – Review

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Andy Kubert (penciller), Jesse Delperdang (inker), Alex Sinclair (colorist) The Story: Remember kids: never accept juice boxes from strangers. The Review: It’s pretty clear that whatever point Johns originally conceived Flashpoint with, the series serves little more purpose now than as a convenient vehicle to carry the upcoming DCU into fruition. [...]

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Flashpoint: Hal Jordan #2 – Review

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Adam Schlagman (writer), Cliff Richards (artist), Allen Passalaqua (colorist) The Story: Snakes and planes! The Review: Last issue churned out so little noteworthy material that it produced my shortest review on record. I’m usually never at a loss of what to say, but when the story gives so much plot and scenery that’s been [...]

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Green Lantern #67 – Review

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (penciller), Christian Alamy, Keith Champagne, Tom Nguyen, Mark Irwin (inkers), Gabe Eltaeb & Randy Mayor (colorists) The Story: This makes me want to break out into a chorus of, “Feelings…woah, woah, woah…” The Review: With all this Flashpoint business going on, War of the Green Lanterns has gotten kind [...]

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Flashpoint: Abin Sur – The Green Lantern #2 – Review

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Adam Schlagman (writer), Robson Rocha, Felipe Massafera, Joe Prado (artists), Rod Reis (colorist) The Story: Well, you’re not exactly E.T., but at least you’re not the Borg. The Review: Do you remember how last week I talked about the importance of exposition done right? How it’s best not to always have characters explaining everything? [...]

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Flashpoint: Hal Jordan #1 – Review

Posted on June 29, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Adam Schlagman (writer), Ben Oliver (artist), Allen Passalqua (colorist) The Story: It’s Hal Jordan’s life—we just live in it. The Review: With Hal Jordan, it’s easy to get a grasp on the man under the ring: a daredevil pilot with cockiness coming through the wazoo, but somewhat redeemed by his hopelessly devoted yet constantly [...]

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